On 08/07/2010 02:45 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
A typical HTML source file is about double the size it needs to be if HTML were designed better. A lot of sites did work hard to try to shrink their HTML pages so they'd load faster.
Double the size? There's no way that was true back when HTML first came out. The gobs of tables and 1 pixel image crap for formatting was not there at the beginning. There were no style sheets. There wasn't JavaScript, which is where a lot of the bloat comes from these days.
I think you came late to the party and didn't see it evolve at the earliest stages. The first pages were basically headers, paragraphs of text, and links. A small picture on a page would overwhelm any amount of HTML markup.
